The *Official Photography Thread*

DSCF0433.jpg by AdelphosChaz, on Flickr

I attempted to make a iPhone / Paper Softbox while being out of town an my parents place haha


It didn't really work out too well handheld. I need my tripod and a trigger (and speedlight and real softbox haha).

DSCF0417.jpg by AdelphosChaz, on Flickr

1.4, 1/180, 6400

It's alright that it didn't really work out though. I have much better ideas for the "Shadows" challenge than a simple portrait

 

That's good though... looks almost like it could have been taken with a PowerSnoot and grid.

 

The fact that it's a jpeg at ISO 6400 is honestly what killed it. Not the poor lighting. The camera I'm testing out doesn't have RAW support with LR5 just yet so all my photos lately have been jpegs and I really hate how little I can push and pull them. Especially at higher ISOs.

 

Doh! I was just looking at the first photo and realized I never tried bouncing the light off the paper and back at me. I intended on it, took a few as a "shoot-through" and ended up forgetting to try the reflector way haha lame. I'm too lazy to go back tonight haha maybe tomorrow night if I'm bored.

 

You're going to miss that 7100 if you let it go

What surprises me is the jpegs out of my 3100 are around 3 meg, but when I export a jpeg from LR5, it's almost 9 meg, and even if I load it into Paint.net and save, it's the same size.
I can get them down to 3meg by reducing the size 50% in Paint.net.

 

That's you?


NO SELFIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

If . . . haha. I never shoot jpeg. I've been shooting RAW since I began photography so I've never realized the difference in post. I've always had that extra leeway.

Who me? Couldn't be!

 

LOL

I just recently started saving jpeg and RAW... I'm ignoring jpegs when I open LR5 now.
At first, I was scanning with Windows photo viewer and going back and forth between two images. Wife was saying that she preferred one over the other, I noticed a color difference, and lens distortion.
Realized I was toggling between a jpeg and NEF of the same image.

I don't know that I'll ever go to shooting only RAW. There's too many times I need to quickly give images to others, like my buddy's 50th birthday where I snagged 150 shots. Before I went home, I just plugged into his PC and popped the jpegs over.

Of course, with the 7100, I'll have the choice between using the 2nd card for NEF with jpeg on the 1st card, but I think I'm going to run it as a mirror to reduce the potential of an error on one card from killing a vacation.
And really, 64 gig should be enough for anything. Even with the NEF+JPG being 13 meg, that's still over 4000 pictures.

 

fuck jpegs. Just go RAW man..haha

 

I agree. Yet for something I won't be editing heavily or something not so much about photographic creativity such as an birthday party or something I could see how shooting jpeg would appeal. Size hasn't been an issue for me and I'd rather export a RAW to a jpeg than need RAW and not have it. This is my first time shooting jpeg exclusively and I hate it haha

 

I don't want to have to go through the whole Lightroom ordeal just to send mom some vacation pics.


Hopefully, in a couple of months, we'll go visit my parents in Austin, which means a trip to Carlsbad Caverns on the way home.

I have to.

The complete failure of the Nikon Coolpix L810 in the caverns is what pushed me to buy the D3100 a week after we got home.

Some came out like this....



But most came out like this, or worse, maybe properly exposed but out of focus.
The budget Nikon cameras (not that the L810 is cheap!) have a problem with their auto-focus program... and their flash MIGHT be good at 20ft.

 

You know you can like batch edit right?

So like make some presets you really like that do the job for basic stuff that makes stuff look better most of the time.

Take you vacation photos..change one via preset...select all of them...hit synch..done...export...and your a professional photographer to your family now! haha

 

Guess i can share these. was out lookin for shadows today..and storm rolled in so didn't get the lighting i wanted but stumbled on to this cool place.


Church_ps.jpg by Monte Nickles Photos, on Flickr

Church 2.jpg by Monte Nickles Photos, on Flickr

 

Nope.

First is the 18-135 kit at 18mm

second is 50mm prime.

 

The 18mm one is slightly.

Not the 50mm

 

idk what your talking about

 

He shot in 16:9 haha

 

Nope..

3:2

 

Hmm.

 

I actually have never played with the aspect ratio...now i am curious..